Year 2011
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Winner of the Singapore Youth Award 2011 (Community & Youth Services Team Category) - the highest youth accolade in Singapore.
The exclusive content provider and forum moderator for the Media Development Authority (MDA)'s nationwide Cyber Wellness Campaign launched on 17 February 2011.
The Cyber Wellness Portal will feature tips and resources written by TCW for both parents and educators.
Overseas Engagement - TOUCH Cyber Wellness was invited by Sekolah Tiara Bangsa-ACS (International) Jakarta again to conduct cyber wellness
programmes for their students in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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2010
Inter-Ministry Cyber Wellness Steering Committee (ICSC) Counselling Training
for Ministry of Education (MOE) Counsellors
Invited to speak at:
- 1st Asia Pacific Behavioural and Addiction Medicine Conference -
TOUCH Cyber Wellness was invited to speak at the 1st APBAM Conference. Presented on topic:
'Understanding and Treating Cyber Addictions'
- MOE ExcelFest 2010 - Seminar speaker
- Cyber Wellness Students Ambassador Programme (CWSAP) Conference 2010 -
Keynote speaker
- 4th Character Education Forum 2010 - Keynote & concurrent workshop speakers
Overseas Engagement - TOUCH Cyber Wellness was invited by Sekolah Tiara
Bangsa-ACS (International) Jakarta to conduct a parents' cyber wellness workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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2009
Singapore's first Cyber Wellness Newsletter - In 2009, TOUCH
started producing a quarterly Cyber Wellness Newsletter.
COMPASS (COMmunity and PArents in Support of Schools) Convention 2009 -
Keynote speaker
Overseas Engagement - TOUCH Cyber Wellness was invited to conduct training
workshops at the Lam Woo Social Work Seminar in Chengdu, China. At the workshops, TOUCH imparted
the essence of Cyber Wellness, which is a uniquely Singapore movement.
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2008
Singapore's first Cyber Wellness Handbook for Parents -
In 2008, TOUCH published the Cyber Wellness Handbook for Parents, a first in Singapore.
This was supported by the Ministry of Community, Youth & Sports (MCYS) and distributed
through all MOE schools to parents of Primary Three to Secondary Three students.
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2007
“The MisAdventures of Ah Boon” was launched and made
a great impact on 63,000 youths through assembly and roadshow settings.
The same year, another 2 shows covering new issues such as respecting
copyrights and internet videos were commissioned.
The PlanetCRUSH Cyber Wellness
Centre continued to counsel many youths and families experiencing
problems with computer gaming. TOUCH also actively promoted healthy
gaming through it’s involvement in the World Cyber
Games and organising Family E-Sports
Events.
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Year 2006
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Singapore’s first Cyber Wellness Centre…
Expanding its role, TOUCH opened the PlanetCRUSH
Cyber Wellness Centre in August 2006 - Singapore’s first one-stop
cyber wellness resource centre that includes cyber wellness counselling
services.
In 2006, TOUCH Cyber Wellness also worked with National Youth Council (NYC)
to publish a handbook - “The Offline Guide for the Online
Generation” - for parents and educators.
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Year 2005
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As a testament of our good standing, TOUCH Cyber Wellness was again approached
by the MDA in 2005 to train other trainers from authorised training
centres to conduct cyber wellness training. Since the disbandment
of the Parent Advisory Group for the Internet in 2006, TOUCH Cyber Wellness
is the sole service provider in conducting cyber wellness workshops
for parents and educators. |
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Year 2004
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In 2004, TOUCH Cyber Wellness worked with the MDA to define the cyber wellness
framework to guide and manage the use of the Internet. This was
significant in crafting a common set of cyber wellness values for
“cyber wellness education”
in Singapore and beyond.
TOUCH Cyber Wellness also developed cyber wellness programme templates for
the MDA to help other organisations to propagate the cyber wellness
message.
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Year 2003
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In 2003, TOUCH pioneered the Cyber Wholeness Enrichment Programme
in 2002 to help youths dealing with their internet gaming difficulties.
A total of 35 youths found breakthrough in their gaming habits from
2003 to 2004. |
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Year 2002
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TOUCH trained the first Internet Safety Youth Ambassadors in secondary
schools and tertiary institutions to propagate the message of safe-surfing.
Through Service-Learning, 239 mentors were deployed in secondary
schools impacting almost 2500 students through Project CRUSH. |
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Year 2000 - 2001
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In December 1999, the Inter-Ministry Committee on Youth Crime (IMYC)
commissioned TOUCH Community Services to develop the contents of
a manual for parents to address the potential dangers of the Internet.
The manual was a Family Life Education Package on “Parenting
Teenagers in the Internet Age“. TOUCH proposed to complement
the manual and reach out to youths as well, through a parallel programme
of E-mentoring and roadshows for students.
In 2001, TOUCH developed CRUSH,
which stands for Cyberspace Risks and where U Seek Help - a first-of-its-kind
collaborative effort by the schools, community and the Government,
to meet real needs of the schools in helping their students surf
safely. Launched in September 2001, CRUSH
received funding from the Media Development Authority (MDA), Inter-Ministry
Committee on Youth Crime and Starhub. |
